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Establishing a Connection Using an

ANSI Compatible Terminal Emulator

The ANSI terminal standard allows access to IRC from most standard terminal emulation applications.

Configuration Guidelines

The following are general guidelines for using ANSI terminal emulation programs to access Remote Console.

Display Settings

Display font — If the display font of your terminal application can be configured, choose a font that supports the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) character set. The “terminal” font is usually a good choice. If your terminal application is configured for a non-OEM-based font, some of the graphic line-draw characters used in the Remote Console menu system may not be drawn correctly.

Terminal settings

Terminal Size — If the terminal size of your terminal application is configurable, set it to the maximum number of lines to be displayed on the server console. For Netware and Unix applications, 25 lines is the appropriate setting to ensure that all lines on the server console are visible on the remote terminal. Windows NT, however, switches to a 50-line mode during OS load and during “blue-screen” error conditions. To insure that this information is also visible on the terminal, set the terminal size to 50 lines. The terminal size setting within Integrated Remote Console must be set to match the setting of your terminal application to function correctly.

Line Wrap — Make sure your terminal application is configured to wrap lines that exceed terminal width. This is the default in most terminal applications.

Backspace key mapping — Some terminal applications allow the backspace key to either be mapped to Backspace (Ctrl+H) or Delete. Make sure that Backspace is mapped to Ctrl+H and not Delete.

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